Kevin Healey An open-ended assignment where students and teachers collaboratively invent a new way of orienting themselves toward existing, ubiquitous forms of digital media. Read more... Instagram Möbius Machine: An Assignment in Digital Composting ..read more

Inés Vañó García, Anselm College Jojo Karlin, New York University Libraries Krystyna Michael, Hostos Community College, CUNY We are thrilled to announce that we have published our newest issue on CUNY’s instance of Manifold, as part of our ongoing migration of our archives and future production to the platform. Visit Issue Twenty-One here ..read more

Christoph Börgers, Tufts University Ben Borgers, Tufts University The authors advocate the use of an anonymous communication channel between students and instructors during class, reflecting on the effectiveness of their own web-based app in undergraduate and graduate math courses. Introduction Many students refrain from asking questions in class, for fear of negative judgment (Cooper et al. 2018; Dillon 1988; Nadile et al. 2021). Research has further emphasized that members of historically marginalized groups—in the STEM fields in particular, this includes African Americans and women—are esp ..read more

Sara Saylor, Freelance Developmental Editor Review of The Book Proposal Book by Laura Portwood-Stacer (Princeton University Press, 2021). Read more... Demystifying Book Proposals ..read more

Mayumi Matsumoto Japanese particles are a notoriously difficult concept for Japanese language learners to master. The Particle Passport uses the set collection game to incentivize students to learn the particles by completing required activities, homework, and extra credit to earn passport stickers. Read more... Particle Passport: A Collection-Based Incentive for Learning Japanese ..read more

J.A.T. Smith, Pepperdine University Rachel N. Hogan, Syracuse University This article describes a structured approach to teaching text encoding for beginning digital humanists as part of a broader theoretical and practical instruction in textual editing and criticism. Here is surely a truth now universally acknowledged: that the whole of our cultural inheritance has to be recurated and reedited in digital forms and institutional structures. —Jerome McGann, A New Republic of Letters Introduction Textual scholars know that working with primary sources is one of the most profound and intimate ..read more

Christopher T. O’Brien and Lora Walter This article describes two assignments from a Faculty Technology Fellows program: one used social media to disseminate scholarly information about childhood and adolescent development, and the second used the application Flip to record an oral presentation about the importance and process of nursing licensure. Read more... Implementing Technology Assignments Developed from a Faculty Technology Fellows Program ..read more

Mikki Kressbach, Ivan Martinez-Medina, and Thomas Streed This assignment illustrates how phenomenological description can be used to analyze ephemeral media and mediated experiences. Read more... Strategies for Analyzing Ephemeral Media: Phenomenological Description ..read more

Brandon Walsh This piece finds Brandon Walsh in commentary around the challenges of standardizing over 300 WordPress articles to be restaged in layout as Manifold texts. Brandon walks readers through the technical and procedural steps underlying this stage of the migration process, in turn highlighting the oft-hidden process by which text data is normalized and translated across open publishing platforms. Read more... Troublescraping: Migrating JITP’s Archive to Manifold ..read more

A.L. McMichael This reflective essay and sample assignment encourage the evaluation and critique of digital humanities projects as a contribution to scholarly dialogue and public knowledge. Read more... Evaluating Digital Scholarship for Critical Thinking in the Undergraduate Classroom ..read more